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Interviewing is no longer just for active job-seekers. While scouring the job market for a future full-time position, people often forget the value of the informational interview, especially for someone undecided about a field or unconfident about their resume. Though the informational interview won’t directly land a job, it certainly will help advance any job seeker’s search. What’s the difference between an informational interview and a traditional job interview? In the case of an informational interview, there’s typically no job opening. Rather, the goal is to build knowledge, get advice, and gather leads for new connections or opportunities. Informational interviews are an excellent way to learn about a field, industry, or organization without the pressure of a job hanging over your shoulders. I’ve often been surprised by the positions that some people achieve straight out of college. However, when considering the connections that many of those individuals have, it’s not so surprising after all. One of the main goals of an informational interview, aside from learning about the industry, is to build a lasting professional relationship and grow your network. There’s always a hidden job market ready to be discovered that’s often not advertised online, which you can uncover by talking to people in the field. By conducting an informational interview, not only will you get your name out in the industry, you may also be able to identify a need the company has that you can fill. Getting an informational interview takes a bit of work. After identifying specific companies within an industry that interests you, begin expanding your network by finding people who work in this industry. Though cold-calling contacts is always an option, the best way to get an informational interview is to ask someone in your network to make the connection for you. Once you meet with this person, what’s a good approach since there is no formal job opening up front? You may ask about that person’s career trajectory, how to get started in the industry, whether your resume would catch a recruiter’s eye, if a job opening opens up, would he or she pass your name along, and if you may send an invitation on LinkedIn. Make sure to follow up after the meeting with a thank-you note and keep in-touch periodically! OpenSesame offers many courses to help you ace to the informational interview, including Guiding Your Career Through Informational Interviews. This interview question training course, Selecting New Employees: Types of Interviews and Interview Questions will help prepare you for many different types of interviews and interview questions that could arise during either a traditional or informational interview. Finally, prepare for an interview with Interview Skills: The Psychology of Interviewer Skills Training Course to understand how the interviewer thinks and how to think like an interviewer. No matter what industry you’re considering, informational interviews can kickstart your career and may even prepare you to interview new hires when you’re in a management position.   InterviewView the discussion thread.

The challenging of assessing formal and informal online learning at scale includes various issues. Many universities who are now promoting "Massive Online Open Courses" (MOOC), for instance, focus on relatively informal assessment of participant competence, which is not highly ‘quality assured’. This paper reports best practices on the use of a web videoconferencing application to […]

The paper critically evaluated the discursive practices on the Moderated Discussion Board (MDB) of Virtual University of Pakistan (VUP). The paramount objective of the study was to conduct a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the MDB on the Learning Management System (LMS) of VUP. For this purpose, the academic power relations of the students and […]

By CYRUS MOULTON, Union Leader Southern New Hampshire University is taking another step to help serve military personnel in the classroom, announcing a new partnership with Warrior Transition Technology Training to provide education, professional certification and job placement for military personnel through a new undergraduate information technology (IT) program. "For many veterans, getting a college degree [...]

By Meris Stansbury, eCampus News The Network of states’ practices are unique in that they offer a standard model of how to create this increasingly needed pipeline. The Pathways to Prosperity Network, an initiative of Jobs for the Future (JFF) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, began three years ago in an effort to help [...]

Flexible, Distance and Online Learning (FDOL) is an open online course offered as an informal cross-institutional collaboration based on a postgraduate module in the context of teacher education in higher education. The second iteration, FDOL132, was offered in 2013 using a problem-based learning (PBL) design (FISh) to foster collaborative learning. How this was experienced by […]

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If you are in charge of designing your internal training program in a workplace, chances are you’ll also be in charge to creating the content that will be used in these training sessions. Depending on the size of your company, or the complexity of your training sessions, the training materials... Read More